Pages

Canon EOS Rebel T3i

Nikon D800

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Book review

Book review: Sidney Sheldon’s Tell me your dreams

This will be my
very first book review and hopefully you guys will like it. Although I always write about fashion, I thought of trying something different. Sidney Sheldon has
a very special place in my literary heart. The first book I read by Sidney
Sheldon was If Tomorrow Comes( I was in 11th), the escapes, the
jewelry heists… I loved it.At any rate, I
have since read everything that Mr. Sheldon has written and been very
pleased with each…I
don't believe this comes close to Sidney Sheldon's other works. I wouldn't
recommend it unless you enjoy Courtroom dramas.

Disclaimer: This review does reveal a few major spoilers
in the plot.

Plot and
Characters:
The novel opens introducing us to Ashley Patterson (the heroine). She
feels and believes that she is being stalked by someone with murderous
intentions but she cannot prove it. One day, she comes home from work (in
Silicon Valley) to find that all the lights in her apartment have been turned
on. Another day she sees that her lingerie drawer has been ransacked.

In the next two chapters, we are introduced to Toni Prescott and Alette
Peters who work with Ashley. Toni is six years younger than Ashley, born
in England, is a bit of a “wild child” with serious maternal issues, a
wonderful singer, but her inner thoughts keep flashing back to her mother telling
her she was no good and would never amount to anything. Toni likes to dress
provocatively and go club hopping on the weekends. She despises Ashley because
Ashley is everything she herself isn’t. Alette is eight years younger than
Ashley. Born in Rome, she is a soft spoken, sweet artist who also has maternal
issues. Though people around her keep telling her that she is an
extraordinarily talented painter, she keeps hearing her mother tell her the
contrary.

Though she currently has a very close relationship with her father, Ashley is
haunted by the memory of her father forcing her to leave her High School
sweetheart, Jim. She had planned to run away and be married to Jim, but he
never showed up at the train station. When Ashley attends her ten year reunion,
she learns that Jim was viciously murdered and castrated the morning they were
supposed to meet. She is stunned and immediately suspects her father. When a
man at work who has been bothering her meets the same fate after she complains
to her father about him, Ashley is convinced that her father is behind these
murders.

On a business trip to Canada, Toni meets her Internet boyfriend for the first
time. He presents her with a beautiful emerald ring and is then murdered and
castrated. Alette’s artist boyfriend back home in California is also killed in
this same fashion. Upon returning home, Ashley finds on her bathroom mirror the
message “You will die”. The deputy assigned to protect her is found the next
morning in the alley, dead and castrated. When the emerald ring given to Toni
is found in Ashley’s jewelry box and her fingerprints and DNA at each murder
scene, she is arrested.

Did you enjoy
reading? Should I do more book reviews?? Please do tell in your comments..

I haven't read anything by this author before, but I will certainly have to keep my eye out. It sounds like a really interesting book! I absolutely love reading, and I love that you did a book review! the-creationofbeauty.blogspot.com